I saw myself
          I saw myself   a ring of bone   in the clear stream   of all of it      and vowed,   always to be open to it   that all of it   might flow through   and then heard   “ring of bone” where   ring is what a      bell do          BY  LEW WELCH                Lew Welch, “[I Saw Myself]” from  Ring of Bone: Collected Poems of Lew Welch .    Copyright © 2012 by Lew Welch. Reprinted by permission of City Lights Books.       Source:  Ring of Bone: Collected Poems of Lew Welch  (City Lights Books, 2012)